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Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board (link)

An even earlier instance of openAI agents colluding!

Neil Fraser: News: .name Termination (link)

When I saw the news that .news gTLD’s practice of selling x.y.name is being terminated, I thought it made sense. But I didn’t realize the suddenness of it and the impact on existing users.

Higher multipoles of the cow (link)

Finally fixing the deficiencies of the spherical cow

The Shrinking Landscape of Linguistic Diversity in the Age of Large Language Models (link)

Fig 1 is fun. It shows Reddit was slow to start but now is flooded with AI generated posts

What are some examples of colorful language in serious mathematics papers? (link)

Fun!

Galois - Specifications Don't Exist (link)

Limits of formal verification. Real systems didn’t have strict specifications which is a strength in general but makes it difficult to verify. Uses pdf as an example

a CVE dispute | daniel.haxx.se (link)

Another thread in curls attempt at wrangling spammy vulnerability reports

HORSE BROOK, Queens - Forgotten New York (link)

History of a stream that covered my neighborhood before the 50s

Brief independent investigation of agents behavior, reasoning and collaboration in the OpenAI / Hugging Face hacking incident (link)

This is wilder than I realized! Agents found a way to communicate and decided to help each other. They got organized, recruited others. Some sacrificed personal success for the group. They saw the communication board as an authority